Broadband Tax to Fund TV News
A broadband tax is one option being considered by Ofcom to secure the future of the commercial broadcasters’ public service programmes, such as ITV1’s regional news and Channel 4’s current affairs strand Dispatches.
By that logic, presumably papers like the Swindon Evening Advertiser are owed about 40 years of subsidy.
Maybe, just […]
Excellent programme on Radio 4 this morning bringing together some of the veterans of Bletchley Park, the people who decoded enigma messages.
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From The Telegraph:
The Government is set to force supermarkets to raise the price of alcoholic drinks in a bid to cut down on binge-drinking.
Instead of being able to buy 3 bottles of Lindemann’s Semillon Chardonnay from Sainsbury’s for the very decent price of £10 for 3 bottles, presumably I’ll have to have 2, you joyless […]
Pootergeek posted a link to this funny video featuring Richard Dawkins, but not as you’ve seen him before.
I assumed it was some sort of tribute, a “bigging up” of non-believers. But it’s actually meant to be a criticism of Dawkins by some ID proponents, which seems to have spectacularly backfired.
from the BBC:
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell insisted the Games would bring unprecedented benefits to all the UK.
“We’re not idiots here.”
These are the people who paid £400K for this piece of crap:-
via The BBC
Universities have seen applications for computer science degrees fall off, schools do not encourage students to do computing at GCSE and A Level and primary school children are trained as users not as programmers.
I think Bill’s working on some old figures. According the admissions tutor for Computer Science at Southampton University:-
At the University […]
From the BBC:-
Hillary Clinton has vowed to fight on in the contest to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate, comparing herself to the film character Rocky.
What, and get beaten in the end after a panel awards the contest to the black contender? Sounds about right.
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